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They Wish They Were Us

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Sometimes it's hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own.” and i know I’M coming across a little bitchy spice about this, but just think of me as a big dumb puppy nipping playfully at a book that wasn’t all i’d hoped, but is perfectly fine. having been spoiled by some of YA’s edgier offerings, i found this one a little more Y than i typically dig. the whodunnit is pretty predictable, the fact that so many adults are invested in the game and complicit in the whole system is a little goofy—when a player is shunned, word spreads, and they are scorned not just by current high-schoolers but also grown folks who should have matured out of such pettiness, and surely some college deans would value actual academic merit over cheating cliques, regardless of what they themselves did in high school.

But now that we’re actually here, parked in the Gold Coast Prep senior lot for the first time, a shiver slinks down my spine. We still have to get through Shaila’s memorial and it hangs over us like a cloud, ready to rain all over the fun. They Wish They Were Us” is about death, anger and loss. It’s about money and teenagers. It’s about drinking and parties. Most of all, it’s about power. The power that comes from being richer than someone, smarter than someone, prettier than someone. Can’t relate. Probably the only creatures who wish they were them are frogs on the roadside. And not ALL kinds of frogs but those kinds which just sit and croak and croak and croakIt took me awhile to figure it out if Graham was actually innocent or guilty. But I was a little underwhelmed when I found out exactly what happened, which is why I lowered it to 4 stars. But other than that this book was an interesting, heart poundingly good read! ⁣ I was desperate to find the answers to this story. But I also got concerned at about 80 percent through because it didn’t seem like it was resolving. It kept the tension going right until the end. Now, all of a sudden, Jill decides to grow a conscience for reasons unbeknownst to the reader (really, no explanation at all) and finally sees that what she has been doing all this time is actionable, to say the least, and tries to stop it. However, she still really misses her "friends", who are even worse than she is, and her hard earned popularity.

When I first read the plot for this novel, I thought this would be pretty mediocre since many authors have used this plot before. I liked learning about the different characters in the novel and seeing their little development (even though Robert had the least development). It was interesting seeing Jill's perspective of everything she knew completely flip, and see her handle all the shit she went through. I appreciated the author showing Jill actually talking to her parents and talking to Nikki about what happened, even though I personally don't think Nikki deserved her. This was a really good story that totally hooked me. Even though I figured out what happened early on, there still were a few twists, so I couldn’t stop reading. There were a lot of familiar elements but Goodman added her own spin to them. Jill starts off senior year thinking she can finally leave the past behind. She’s a senior Player who aces her tests through a network of former players who give her cheat sheets and has a Player boyfriend. She’s set to get into an Ivy League. She’s untouchable now. Sadly, this just felt like such a pointless book. It was so pointless that it took me less than two hours to read this book because I skimmed most of it, and yet I know I didn't miss anything.Jessica Goodman's thrilling debut is a modern-day Gossip Girl—but darker.”– Marie Claire, The Best Fiction by Women in 2020 You're just like me", she said softly in a maternal voice. "Scared. Young". My stomach sank. Those didn't sound like good things. "You'll survive, though", she continued. "We're the strong ones".” It was just so boring knowing who the killer was from the beginning and waiting for the mc to finally realize

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